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Alibaba is massively expanding its AI research and reach, and is recruiting help from Nvidia. — Alibaba won’t say if they’ll use any Nvidia chips, but says they can help out with robotics. (Picture: Adobe)

Nvidia chips are as good as banned in China, but that doesn’t stop the internet giant Alibaba from partnering with the chip supplier — and see its stocks surge 10%.

Alibaba recently decided to «double down» on AI, according to this Reuters report, and promised $53 billion in AI infrastructure investments during the next three years – with even more coming.

Nvidia is slated to help develop physical AI functions like data synthesis, model training, environmental simulation and validation testing, Reuters says.

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